Re: cannot find and install some dev packages

2011-08-22 Thread H.S.
On 20/08/11 11:07 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > apt-cache policy libhighgui.dev And I am still getting this: $> sudo aptitude install libhighgui.dev Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libhighgui.dev" Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libhighgui.d

[Solved, sort of] Re: cannot find and install some dev packages

2011-08-22 Thread H.S.
On 22/08/11 10:57 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 20/08/11 11:07 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >> apt-cache policy libhighgui.dev > > And I am still getting this: > $> sudo aptitude install libhighgui.dev > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libhighgu

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/10/11 12:31 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to install an image of Debian to a number of computers. > Each of these computers will have the same configuration except the > hostname and the IP address. The IP configuration has to be static. I > can't use a DHCP server.

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/10/11 02:08 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > Dnsmasq is a DHCP and DNS server combined. As I mentioned before, I > can't use a DHCP server. > > On 02.10.2011 20:02, H.S. wrote: >> On 02/10/11 12:31 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>

merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread H.S.
Hello. Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I am looking at pdftk, but it is not obvious to me if or how it can do this. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corre

Re: merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,06.May.10, 15:48:17, H.S. wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd >> pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I >> am looking at pdftk, but it is not

Re: merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Thu,06.May.10, 15:48:17, H.S. wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd >>> pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I >>&g

Re: RAW photo images

2010-05-21 Thread H.S.
Charles Kroeger wrote: > Does anyone running Debian, (not Umbuto) use 'raw-therapee' or know of a good > raw image processor that does well with 'our' distro? I have Gimp but can't > find anything regarding 'raw' in the help files. > > (i.e. 16bits) > > have a better one. > I have used ufraw su

Re: RAW photo images

2010-05-21 Thread H.S.
jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM, H.S. wrote: >> I have used ufraw successfully with Canon's crw files. I have also used >> dcraw to do the raw->jpeg conversion on the command line. The only >> problem that I have encountered in the latter method

file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Hello. When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred and not when they were originally created. How do I avoid these and get lowe

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:50:15 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to >> my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the >> time stamp of the transferred files is the time they

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Daniel Barclay wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> ... >> When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to >> my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the >> time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferre

is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686. I see that firewire is now handled

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/28/2010 12:53 PM, H.S. wrote: >> I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any >> problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some >> kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. >&g

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > I think that the "old" Firewire stack is still in the kernel. > > Googling "linux howto use old firewire stack", I found this link which > might help: > > http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture > > BTW, r

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/28/2010 01:43 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> I think that the "old" Firewire stack is still in the kernel. >>> >>> Googling "linux howto use old firewire stack", I found this link

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-29 Thread H.S.
Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi H.S. (2010.05.29_03:37:19_+0200) >> In today's Debian Testing, is there anyone here who has successfully >> grabbed dv video from a MiniDV camcorder at all using the newer >> firewire stack? > > Yes. I have had some trouble with it (dvgr

firewire regression in newer kernels [was: Re: is firewire broken in Debain?]

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any > problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some > kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. > > I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-

Re: firewire regression in newer kernels [was: Re: is firewire broken in Debain?]

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > > I posted this problem over at linux1394-user mailing list (subject "Kino > and dvgrab not working with camcorder ", date 28 May 2010 11:39 PM). > Stefan Richter has been extremely helpful, and diligent, in tracking > down the problem. He has found it

problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
I am testing a patch for the Debian kernel (regarding the firewire bug I reported earlier in this list). I have been sent the patch and I followed the Debian way of compiling the kernel after patching the source. The kernel was compiled (and the deb created) on an AMD64 bit machine which is runni

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > I am testing a patch for the Debian kernel (regarding the firewire bug I > reported earlier in this list). I have been sent the patch and I > followed the Debian way of compiling the kernel after patching the source. > > The kernel was compiled (and the deb created)

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> I am testing a patch for the Debian kernel (regarding the firewire bug I >> reported earlier in this list). I have been sent the patch and I >> followed the Debian way of compiling the kernel after patching the source. >> >> The kernel

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread H.S.
Cameron Hutchison wrote: > "H.S." writes: > You can ignore these two errors. You are installing the kernel on a > different machine to the one you built on, so those links do not work. > That is why it deletes the links. Okay. >> Anybody know why I am getting this

[SOLVED] Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-31 Thread H.S.
Cameron Hutchison wrote: > "H.S." writes: > >> Here are the grub.cfg stanzas for the current running kernel and for my >> compiled kernel respectively: >> #the default debian kernel >>initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 > >> #kern

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread H.S.
On 31/05/10 05:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Besides, I also tend to name the files and folders as > "2010-05-31_filename" and so on, they keep my mind (and my computer) in a > very well organized fit :-) Totally agree. This is one of the main uses of ISO date format that I routinely take advantag

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/06/10 12:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.JPG > > It reads the date/time stamp from a pic's Exif header and then renames > the file. ...... Not applicable if there is no exif data in the photo file ... fai

trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-01 Thread H.S.
There was a slight screw-up with my mount points of /boot earlier today, when I was doing a bit of house cleaning. I purged some old kernels and installed a new one while /boot was mounted on a different partition (another story, sigh!). I noticed the problems and fixed that and rebooted with prop

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 09:47 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> >> Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: >> $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* >> /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 >> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 >> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-68

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >>> H.S. wrote: >>>> >>>> Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: >>>> $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* >>>> /boot/config-2.6

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 11:50 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 10:47:26 H.S. wrote: >> On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >>>>> H.S. wrote: >>>>>> Now, after doing th

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:26AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > >>> Since they are stale files, not associated with any installed package, >>> why not simply delete the files? >> >

can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 01:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:09:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: >>> As far as I can tell, generally linux-image* puts files in /lib/modules, >>> /boot, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/bug. Now given

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 01:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 11:55:55 H.S. wrote: >> I understand the files with 'trunk' in them, but the rest I am not why >> they are there since I have the following kernels installed: >> $> dpkg -l linux

converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
I have an ADSL connection for my home network. The ADSL modem is connected to an old box running Debian Testing which acts as a router and firewall. My ISP has given me an IPv6 address to try out. I have the username and password. Basically, I now need to convert my ppp connection to deal with IP

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 03:02 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 02 iun 10, 13:46:47, H.S. wrote: >> >> If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system >> someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I >> would like to know its

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 02/06/10 03:02 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Mi, 02 iun 10, 13:46:47, H.S. wrote: >>> >>> If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system >>> someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 03:50 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 02 iun 10, 15:24:23, H.S. wrote: > >> or, if you want to list the contents of a deb file (instead of an >> installed package), the following will give the same info (might need to >> be root or use sudo for apt's c

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-04 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 02:20 PM, H.S. wrote: > > I have an ADSL connection for my home network. The ADSL modem is > connected to an old box running Debian Testing which acts as a router > and firewall. > > My ISP has given me an IPv6 address to try out. I have the username and > passw

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-05 Thread H.S.
On 05/06/10 01:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > H.S. put forth on 6/4/2010 11:06 PM: > > >> Also, I am supposed to dial the ppp connection and obtain an IPv6 >> address from my ISP (as opposed to using a static one). > > If this is truly the case, why did your ISP giv

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-05 Thread H.S.
On 05/06/10 01:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > H.S. put forth on 6/4/2010 11:06 PM: > >> Can somebody help in this problem? > > Yes, I can. Disable dhcp6. You've already bound a static IPv6 address to > eth1 but you didn't configure a gateway address. Configure a

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-05 Thread H.S.
Here are the correct settings that seem to work: 1) Addresses given by my ISP: HEX1:aa00::/64 HEX2:bb00::/56 <-- this is the one used below 2) /etc/network/interfaces file #for IPv6 config (note "bb01"). Goes to LAN switch iface eth0 inet6 static address HEX2:bb01::01 netmask 64

Re: converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-06 Thread H.S.
On 06/06/10 05:01 AM, Antonio Perez wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > You don't need to assign different blocks to each NIC, all your network > needs only one block of addresses. It is, however, a good idea, security > wise, to keep them apart. hmmm. > >> So, I had to

Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is tun0. ,--. ppp0 <--eth1eth0--192.168.0.0/24--->to LAN switch | wlan0--192.168.5.0/24---> WLAN | tu

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 01:04 PM, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > Em 7/6/2010 13:54, H.S. escreveu: >> Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine >> has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is tun0. >> ,--. >&g

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 02:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know > what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? > Crap! I was using Firegpg for mails to my friends and family whose primary mail contact is yahoo or google and Firegpg p

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? > > I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working :) > > Regards, > I didn't have that in smb.conf file at all. I have included the following lines

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> Hi, >> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? >> >> I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working :) >> &g

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:32 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote: >> On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? >>> >>> I'm not sure if it can works, s

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:52 PM, H.S. wrote: > > A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and > now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: > ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 172.16.15.0/24 192.168.5.0/24 > > > However, I can not only use "sudo smbmo

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 04:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. wrote: >> >> A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and >> now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: >> ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 17

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 11:42 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:10:54PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> On 07/06/10 02:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know &

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-08 Thread H.S.
On 08/06/10 10:39 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:08:11AM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> >> Yes, I agree. In fact, if a mail client like TB or mutt can be used, >> there is nothing to beat that. However, FireGPG was

[partly solved] Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-09 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 06:20 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:53 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> needs to be clarified. As I described earlier, I have three separate >> networks on my LAN: >> wired network (192.168.0.0/24) >> wireless network (192.168.5.0/24) >&g

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-09 Thread H.S.
On 09/06/10 09:37 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:41:39PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> On 08/06/10 10:39 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:08:11AM -0400, H.S. uttered: >>>> >>>> Yes, I agree. In fact, if

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-10 Thread H.S.
On 10/06/10 10:11 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:59:44PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> >> FireGPG was a pretty neat extension which got around both these problems. > > So is engimail; I can't see them having any more difficulty in setting > it up t

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-10 Thread H.S.
On 10/06/10 10:33 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:22:22PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> On 10/06/10 10:11 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:59:44PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >>>> >>>> FireGPG was a pretty neat exte

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-11 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/10 09:27 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 06/07/2010 12:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know >> what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? > > Thunderbird with the Enigmail extension is by far my favorite tool for > Gmail and en

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/10 10:50 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:03:50PM +0100, Jon Dowland uttered: >> On 11/06/2010 03:33, Steve Fishpaste wrote: >>> No it's for Thunderbird. >> Therein lies the problem. Are you actually reading H.S.'s posts? > >

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-13 Thread H.S.
On 13/06/10 02:24 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:46:32PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> replying! If you wanted to reply to the OP, you should have done that ^^^ >> instead of replying to me. I am not sure which email

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-13 Thread H.S.
On 13/06/10 10:49 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:16:16PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> On 13/06/10 02:24 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:46:32PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >>>> replying! If you wanted to reply to the

Re: how to start and run a command during boot

2010-06-14 Thread H.S.
On 14/06/10 04:38 PM, Long Wind wrote: > I have etch and a ppp connection > I want to make ppp connection every time Debian boot > That is, run "pon" during boot > What is the proper way to do that? > Thanks! > > When you do pppoeconf to configure the ppp connection, one of the last questions sh

Re: problem with AC 97 sound chip

2010-06-15 Thread H.S.
On 15/06/10 09:43 PM, Long Wind wrote: > I have etch with kernel 2.6 > The onboard ac 97 chip does not work > lsmod shows intel 810 modules loaded > sound controls in application appear to be working > but there's no sound > (the sound chip work in kernel 2.4 in sarge) I think I also have ac97 chi

Re: how execute command on every mail received

2010-06-16 Thread H.S.
On 15/06/10 05:33 AM, paragasu wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if there is a simple SMTP deamon. > This deamon will execute a specific command on every email received. > > I have a PHP program that will parse the email and > send SMS to specific mobile phone number thereafter. > > please advice. >

Re: Restarting X

2010-06-17 Thread H.S.
On 17/06/10 01:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:53:49 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > >> When I'm testing things with X I l want to be able to log via SSH and >> restart X, how can I do that in a console? I'm using Gnome. > > "/etc/init.d/gdm restart"? :-? Correct. This is what I a

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread H.S.
On 06/19/10 02:02, ABS Doug wrote: > I still don't have an answer. It would seem for the 1st time in my > life, I've reached a point were I can't figure something out. Here is > what I've tried: > > -Lowered upload speed below 50% of total upload capacity (fail). > -Lowered the number of peers, bo

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 17:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/2010 04:30 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > [snip] >> >> I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is >> included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but >> that isn't gunna happen. The router isn't even mine. I might

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 21:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/2010 08:26 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > [snip] >> >> torrents over wireless can be very tricky. > > Why? > I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I understand where he is coming from. I have discovered that a buggy driver, or

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 17:30, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, H.S. wrote: > >> If torrents were acting all weird in my case, I would do the following, >> in the given order. >> >> 1. Try a "safe" torrent, e.g. of a Linux distribution (Ubuntu is a

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 23:10, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: >> >> you have no control at all on how the wifi hotspots were configured, >> which is also the case of ABS Doug. >> port-forwarding (or upnp) is needed for good torrents performance. >> if the number of conne

Re: Debian as an SSL VPN server or gateway?

2010-06-21 Thread H.S.
On 06/21/10 19:50, vr wrote: > Hi, > > Assuming there is even such a server software available today... Is > anyone running Debian as an SSL VPN gateway for Windows 7 64-bit clients > and if so, can you discuss your configuration or pitfalls to beware of > when just getting started? > > I am ru

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread H.S.
On 06/25/10 05:57, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. > Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: > > ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45) > -> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101 (this com

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread H.S.
On 06/25/10 14:44, vr wrote: > On 6/25/2010 5:57 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN. >> Here is the way I am connected to the Internet: >> >> ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router >> (RJ-45) >>

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread H.S.
On 25/06/10 06:07 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> On 06/25/10 14:44, vr wrote: >> >> >> Mac address is usually an issue in cable internet connections. In any >> case, router/modems usually have a feature called "clone mac address" >>

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-28 Thread H.S.
On 27/06/10 10:51 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Thank you guys. > I have not follow Stephen's guide, but I figured the reason out. It > seems like an ext3's fault. The space (i-node wise) was used 5.x GB, > but the actual space (data wise) was used only 1 GB. So a lot of space > was just empty

Re: how to set up a wireless access point

2010-06-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/06/10 01:54 PM, lee wrote: > Hi, > > can someone point me to a good documentation about what's needed to > make it so that computers can connect to my computer wirelessly? > > I've got a wireless network card which I'm thinking of putting back > into my computer so that I can use the router

was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-06-30 Thread H.S.
I noticed that when I rebooted my machine earlier today, it would not load the kernel and it was giving some "media error" messages. I did various basic hardware debugging and ended up with my hard disk's manufacturer's diagnostic utility telling me that there were bad sectors on the drive. This

Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-07-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/07/10 03:34 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Don't you have some method of checking the integrity of you backups? > (http://www.taobackup.com/integrity.html) > > It is considered that a modern drive developing bad sectors visible to > the system[1] is not to be trusted. > > [1] drives are re

Re: how to set up a wireless access point

2010-07-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/07/10 01:53 PM, lee wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:26:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> First you need to make sure that your wireless card has the ability to >> act as an access point. Next, you need to find which Linux driver >> supports that card (madwifi or

Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-07-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/07/10 09:43 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 01/07/10 03:34 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> Don't you have some method of checking the integrity of you backups? >> (http://www.taobackup.com/integrity.html) >> >> It is considered that a modern drive developing bad s

AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread H.S.
I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. Anybody with this mobo can confirm there are no problems with Debian? For example, someone h

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/07/10 01:10 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 11:45 AM, H.S. wrote: >> I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus >> and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, >> etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherbo

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/07/10 08:52 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: >> I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus >> and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, >> etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 moth

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-03 Thread H.S.
On 03/07/10 06:36 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 07:52 PM, Greg Madden wrote: >> On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: >>> I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus >>> and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (netwo

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-03 Thread H.S.
On 03/07/10 11:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/03/2010 09:52 AM, H.S. wrote: >> On 03/07/10 06:36 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Next up is the audio: >> Audio: VT1818 High Definition Audio 8-Channel CODEC >> > > That I don't know. Google and gr

strange freezes or lock ups on memory intensive tasks

2010-07-05 Thread H.S.
This is on an AMD 64 bit processor (AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 555 Processor) with Debian Unstable (32 bit kernel) installed. I have noticed that when I am running a RAM intensive task, usually when browsing large photo files in geeqie and sometimes when starting firefox or chromium, the PC hangs or lo

Re: strange freezes or lock ups on memory intensive tasks

2010-07-06 Thread H.S.
On 06/07/10 02:47 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > What motherboard? Integrated video/GPU or add in card? Have you tried a > different power supply yet? > Motherboard: Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H. Chipset: AMD 790GX/SB750 Onboard graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics Audio chipset: Realtek ALC889A LAN:

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-06 Thread H.S.
On 05/07/10 07:51 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > My question, how can I make iceweasel, OO and other packages like > inkscape to use scim as the default input method? This is on Debian Testing, Intel 32 bit processor. I can use scim on my KDE desktop without any problems ... almost. The only hiccup

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-06 Thread H.S.
On 06/07/10 12:23 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 15:37:04 H.S. wrote: >> The only hiccup is that its >> applet does not start when I log in. This gives an option of switching >> to my last changed keyboard using CTRL+SPC only > > I have it working, so far

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-06 Thread H.S.
On 06/07/10 05:53 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I may not have time to do this tomorrow - and must get myself to bed now > before I fall asleep at the keyboard. :-( But I'll do it in the > foreseeable future. Okay, thanks. There is no hurry though, so take it easy. :) -- Please reply to this li

Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 (was:Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO ...)

2010-07-09 Thread H.S.
On 02/07/10 12:45 PM, H.S. wrote: > I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus > and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, > etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. > > Anybody with this mobo can confi

newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-10 Thread H.S.
On a newly installed KDE on a Testing system, I notice that when I connect a USB flash stick memory, it automatically opens in a Nautilus window. On the previously installed system, the Nautilus window did not open and only the removable device notifier for KDE popped up a message saying that a me

Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-11 Thread H.S.
On a newly installed Debian Testing system, I installed Fedora 13 in a partition but chose not to install the boot loaded since I wanted to use Debian's boot loader for all OSes. Now when I do update-grub in Debian, it detects all OSes installed in the hard drives connected to the system, but doe

Re: how to backup and restore /var partition.

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 11/07/10 11:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > H. S. wrote: >> I want to reinstall Debian on a machine which is also running my local >> web server. I am planning on backing up /home, /var and /etc. > > Backups are good. But... > > Re-install? Why? Is the machine running now? If so then why not

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 12:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > (...) > >> Now when I do update-grub in Debian, it detects all OSes installed in >> the hard drives connected to the system, but does not detect Fedora 13. >> I had to man

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > I think windows OS falls apart (as there are no "vmlinuz" files to > detect) but fedora9 should be the same case than Fedora13, provided that > is also located in a different disk. > > When you run the "update-grub" command, it writes a bad entry for >

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:22 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc > > s/grub-pc/os-prober/ > > Foreign operating systems are (suppose

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: >>> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc >> >> s/

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 06/07/10 05:53 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I may not have time to do this tomorrow - and must get myself to bed now > before I fall asleep at the keyboard. :-( But I'll do it in the > foreseeable future. > > Lisi I just reinstalled my system (replace a faulty hard disk). Regarding scim, I instal

[SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:45 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 12/07/10 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>>> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 11/07/10 07:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:06:14 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> On a newly installed KDE on a Testing system, I notice that when I >> connect a USB flash stick memory, it automatically opens in a Nautilus >> window. >> >> On

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